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MagicMtnDan
09-22-2005, 07:30 AM
http://www2.***boat.com/image_center/data/520/6722007_Chevy_Tahoe_01.jpg
GM Shows New Full-Size Utes
Whether General Motors' future depends on their success is apparently a matter of debate, but there is no question that the new full-size SUVs the automaker unveiled in Detroit on Tuesday are "critical for us," acknowledged North American director Mark LaNeve.
Faced with eroding sales and profit margins for the old line of big utes, collectively known inside GM as the GMT800s, product chief and Vice Chairman Bob Lutz ordered a full-scale mobilization of engineering resources, hoping to get the new GMT900 series to market. The first of 12 different models in three different body styled will now hit market during the first quarter of 2006, as much as six months earlier than originally planned. The rest will follow in the second quarter.
But with fuel prices near record levels, the question is whether the market for large pickups has already peaked, threatening the business case behind the GMT900 series. "It's realistic to assume the segment won't grow," conceded Lutz, "but I do believe with these vehicles we will be gaining share." In recent years, GM has routinely captured between 60 to 62 percent of the full-size pickup market, which has been running around 750,000 vehicles annually. The automaker has had to steadily ramp up incentives to maintain that momentum, however, cutting into profit margins that, at peak, ran as high as 30 percent of dealer invoice, estimated Joe Phillippi, chief analyst with the consulting firm, AutoTrends, Inc.
GM officials underscored the fact that the 2007-model SUVs feature a variety of gas-saving technologies, such as displacement-on-demand - which idles half an engine's cylinders when power demand is low. And GM officials noted that the new utes are, collectively, the most aerodynamic in the segment. All told, such factors will boost their fuel economy an average 1 mile per gallon over the old GMT800 series. The '07 rear-drive Chevrolet Tahoe, for example, will get an estimated 20.5 mpg, with the four-wheel-drive version averaging 20.1 mpg.
"We're very aware of fuel prices and the effect they have on our business, especially full-size trucks," said LaNeve. But while he insisted the big truck segment "is not going away," he conceded "it may contract." If fuel prices do continue to spike, triggering a significant shift in the market, added Lutz, GM is preparing itself. It will have a total of 14 crossover models on the market within two years. Many of those are based off the new Lambda platform.-

Sleek-Jet
09-22-2005, 07:32 AM
Call me when they make a 2 door one again... :sleeping: :sleeping:
Sleek <----- still driving his 93 full size BLAZER

Jyruiz
09-22-2005, 07:33 AM
I like the old one better.

76ANTHONY
09-22-2005, 07:34 AM
looks like a trailblazer still

SUBPRIME
09-22-2005, 10:09 AM
that thing is ugly!

Beer-30
09-22-2005, 10:13 AM
Aw, a little billet here and there will help alot. Some paint work as normal. Oh, and drop it on it's pee pee.

keithmenard
09-22-2005, 10:15 AM
Wow, that is a cool looking trail..what? oh, thats a tahoe?
Screwed the pooch on that design! Guess, I will keep driving my 85 :)
and the company 02 suburban :D

Brady Bunch
09-22-2005, 10:38 AM
They had to go an ugly up the front of it didn't they! :squiggle:

HocusPocus
09-22-2005, 11:15 AM
i think i will pass.

GBLASER
09-22-2005, 12:06 PM
Fuggly...... Our parents will love them!

Blown Spectra
09-22-2005, 12:12 PM
think out of the box people(at least try) imagine that thing on 22's nice front grill!! and some more accessories..... it should look pretty tight. (not the best looking thing in the world) but its not ugly!!!
just my 02.
REMINDER: we are in the 21st century........... ;)
Eric

riverracerx
09-22-2005, 12:31 PM
courtesy of www.gm-trucks.com
http://gm-trucks.com/home/images/stories/07tahoe/main_page3.jpg
http://gm-trucks.com/home/images/stories/07tahoe/main_page2.jpg
still don't have fold into the floor seats like the Ford. what a mistake! :(
http://www.gm-trucks.com/gallery/albums/2007TahoePreview/normal_t10.jpg
lots of cues from the Expedition out back. plastic bumpers and plate moved to the hatch. looks alot like the Esacalde this way too:
http://www.gm-trucks.com/gallery/albums/2007TahoePreview/normal_t7.jpg
although the interior is nice, still could have been pushed farther in my opinion.
http://www.gm-trucks.com/gallery/albums/2007TahoePreview/normal_t12.jpg
http://www.gm-trucks.com/gallery/albums/2007TahoePreview/normal_t8.jpg
http://www.gm-trucks.com/gallery/albums/2007TahoePreview/normal_t6.jpg
I think the headlights are very much like the Ford too. square plastic with twin rounds lights encased inside.
Overall it is nicer than the current version but a bit conservative in the design department and again softened way too much. They have lost that rugged truck look and feel. Almost too minivanish out back.

fasbote
09-22-2005, 12:41 PM
So what are they going to have for power? Any diesel?

riverracerx
09-22-2005, 03:08 PM
Wonder what they will sell for now that the Emplyee Pricing has jaded everyone?